Public Sector Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Public Sector
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 22 20
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 507 198 200
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 10.50% 7.55% 7.37%
As % of the General category 20.30% 12.21% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 132 121
10th Percentile £363 £264 £285
25th Percentile £425 £396 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £578 £530 £565
90th Percentile £665 £599 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 5 17
10th Percentile £16.46 - -
25th Percentile £17.50 £18.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.50 £23.05 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% +21.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £31.10 £25.15 £33.93
90th Percentile £75.00 - £48.25
England median hourly rate £21.35 £21.75 £24.18
% change year-on-year -1.84% -10.05% +17.78%

All General Skills
Midlands

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,497 1,622 1,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 51.70% 61.84% 57.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,423 1,064 989
10th Percentile £306 £213 £225
25th Percentile £403 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £550 £613
90th Percentile £675 £638 £725
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 121 93
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.25 £12.80
25th Percentile £14.65 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.50 £25.15 £21.59
Median % change year-on-year -14.51% +16.49% -7.02%
75th Percentile £33.75 £35.60 £33.93
90th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £54.38
England median hourly rate £31.13 £25.15 £38.50
% change year-on-year +23.77% -34.68% +40.00%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the Midlands

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the Midlands

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +7 433 £490 +3.16% 228
East Midlands +15 68 £450 +7.78% 84
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 34 (6.71%) SAS
2 30 (5.92%) Confluence
3 17 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.56%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.99%) Tuxedo
6 4 (0.79%) Apache
6 4 (0.79%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.58%) ContrOCC
3 7 (1.38%) Oracle General Ledger
3 7 (1.38%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (1.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.79%) SAP PSCD
6 3 (0.59%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.59%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.59%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle Payroll
7 2 (0.39%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.20%) Primavera
8 1 (0.20%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 109 (21.50%) Azure
2 101 (19.92%) AWS
3 45 (8.88%) Power Platform
4 43 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (6.71%) Power Automate
6 30 (5.92%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (3.55%) PowerApps
8 17 (3.35%) GitHub
9 15 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (2.96%) Serverless
10 13 (2.56%) Azure Functions
10 13 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (2.17%) Amazon S3
12 11 (2.17%) PaaS
12 11 (2.17%) SaaS
13 10 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (1.78%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (1.78%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.18%) LAN
2 5 (0.99%) WAN
3 3 (0.59%) Firewall
4 2 (0.39%) DHCP
4 2 (0.39%) DNS
4 2 (0.39%) VLAN
4 2 (0.39%) VPN
5 1 (0.20%) BGP
5 1 (0.20%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.20%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.20%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.20%) Network Security
5 1 (0.20%) OSPF
5 1 (0.20%) SAN
5 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.20%) SSL
5 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.20%) Wireless
5 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.33%) Power BI
1 27 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 25 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (4.34%) Pentaho
4 20 (3.94%) Oracle Database
5 19 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (3.75%) Relational Database
6 18 (3.55%) Metadata
6 18 (3.55%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 17 (3.35%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 13 (2.56%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.97%) NoSQL
10 9 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.78%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.78%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (1.58%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.38%) Ingres
13 6 (1.18%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.99%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 44 (8.68%) Git
2 41 (8.09%) JIRA
3 33 (6.51%) Jenkins
4 24 (4.73%) GitLab
5 20 (3.94%) JUnit
6 19 (3.75%) SonarQube
7 18 (3.55%) Mockito
8 17 (3.35%) Maven
9 16 (3.16%) Selenium
10 14 (2.76%) Postman
11 11 (2.17%) WebDriver
12 10 (1.97%) Cucumber
12 10 (1.97%) Cypress.io
13 9 (1.78%) Team Foundation Server
14 7 (1.38%) DbUnit
14 7 (1.38%) JMeter
15 6 (1.18%) Bitbucket Server
15 6 (1.18%) jMock
16 5 (0.99%) Oracle Forms
17 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 164 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 75 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (13.21%) Finance
4 39 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 32 (6.31%) Local Government
6 25 (4.93%) Influencing Skills
7 22 (4.34%) Police
8 20 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.17%) Legal
10 10 (1.97%) Military
11 9 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.99%) Banking
12 5 (0.99%) General Ledger
12 5 (0.99%) Law
12 5 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.39%) Advertising
13 2 (0.39%) Fire and Rescue
13 2 (0.39%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.39%) Retail
14 1 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (17.36%) Developer
2 74 (14.60%) Senior
3 73 (14.40%) Architect
4 53 (10.45%) Lead
5 50 (9.86%) Analyst
6 48 (9.47%) Data Engineer
7 46 (9.07%) Data Architect
8 26 (5.13%) Java Developer
9 23 (4.54%) Senior Developer
10 22 (4.34%) Business Analyst
11 17 (3.35%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 16 (3.16%) Senior Manager
13 14 (2.76%) Test Analyst
14 13 (2.56%) Consultant
15 12 (2.37%) Cloud Engineer
15 12 (2.37%) Designer
15 12 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (2.37%) Senior Java Developer
16 11 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
16 11 (2.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.92%) SOAP
2 29 (5.72%) Spring
3 28 (5.52%) REST
4 26 (5.13%) Spring Boot
5 21 (4.14%) JSON
6 18 (3.55%) ActiveMQ
6 18 (3.55%) Oracle Fusion
6 18 (3.55%) RESTful
7 17 (3.35%) Hibernate
7 17 (3.35%) JPA
7 17 (3.35%) Web Services
8 16 (3.16%) AngularJS
9 15 (2.96%) Spring Cloud
10 13 (2.56%) XML
11 12 (2.37%) Gherkin
12 9 (1.78%) React
12 9 (1.78%) Spring Batch
12 9 (1.78%) Spring Integration
12 9 (1.78%) Terraform
12 9 (1.78%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.71%) Product Ownership
3 27 (5.33%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.97%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.78%) Taxonomies
9 7 (1.38%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.18%) Data Fabric
10 6 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.18%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.18%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.99%) BYOD
11 5 (0.99%) Freedom of Information
12 4 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.79%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.37%) Linux
2 8 (1.58%) Unix
3 7 (1.38%) Windows
4 5 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (45.96%) Agile
2 122 (24.06%) Continuous Improvement
3 117 (23.08%) DevOps
4 116 (22.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 104 (20.51%) CI/CD
6 102 (20.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 89 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
8 87 (17.16%) Analytics
9 78 (15.38%) Scrum
10 77 (15.19%) Migration
11 67 (13.21%) Data Modelling
12 64 (12.62%) Decision-Making
13 59 (11.64%) Data Integration
14 53 (10.45%) Technical Leadership
15 48 (9.47%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 47 (9.27%) Microservices
16 47 (9.27%) Test Automation
17 44 (8.68%) AI
17 44 (8.68%) ETL
18 43 (8.48%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 74 (14.60%) SQL
2 54 (10.65%) Java
3 37 (7.30%) JavaScript
4 24 (4.73%) C#
5 21 (4.14%) Python
6 16 (3.16%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.56%) Scala
8 9 (1.78%) PL/SQL
9 8 (1.58%) VB
9 8 (1.58%) VB6
10 6 (1.18%) ABAP
11 5 (0.99%) C
11 5 (0.99%) R
12 4 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.79%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.59%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.59%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.59%) VBA
14 2 (0.39%) Bash
14 2 (0.39%) ProC
Qualifications
1 218 (43.00%) Security Cleared
2 193 (38.07%) SC Cleared
3 79 (15.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (5.92%) Degree
5 24 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (2.76%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.18%) ACCA
7 6 (1.18%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.18%) CIMA
7 6 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.18%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.79%) CCAB
8 4 (0.79%) SAS Certification
9 3 (0.59%) CCA
9 3 (0.59%) CISM
9 3 (0.59%) CISSP
9 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (10.26%) QA
2 47 (9.27%) Accessibility
3 38 (7.50%) Data Quality
4 24 (4.73%) GDPR
5 23 (4.54%) WCAG
6 8 (1.58%) SLA
7 6 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.99%) GRC
9 4 (0.79%) NCSC
9 4 (0.79%) PMO
10 2 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.39%) NIST
11 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (7.50%) Docker
2 8 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.99%) Postfix
4 3 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (4.93%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.14%) Grafana
3 16 (3.16%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.79%) Ansible
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.39%) SCCM
5 2 (0.39%) VxRail
6 1 (0.20%) SCOM
Vendors
1 70 (13.81%) Oracle
2 63 (12.43%) Microsoft
3 21 (4.14%) Talend
4 14 (2.76%) Denodo
5 13 (2.56%) SAP
6 9 (1.78%) Databricks
6 9 (1.78%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.58%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.58%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (1.58%) Liquidlogic
8 7 (1.38%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.38%) Informatica
9 6 (1.18%) Pega
10 5 (0.99%) Actian
11 4 (0.79%) Google
12 3 (0.59%) Blue Prism
12 3 (0.59%) Concur
12 3 (0.59%) VMware
13 2 (0.39%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.39%) Sparx